Rhythm-the Creation Engine Of The Documentary The Dress And The Motorcycle

Rhythm is the limit when pitch goes up and down, it looks for beauty in constant variation.As documentaries that based on truth reflect social and cultural life, the variation and movement of the rhythm are of vital importance.In terms of aesthetics, the rhythm is the connection between the internal and the external of things and can help them reach an balance, which is the highest perfection of aesthetics.This paper aims to make explorative attempt and effort toward a documentary namely The dress and the Motorcycle.The documentary, The dress and the Motorcycle, has its unique rhythm attribute. Not only the choice of the characters, its special vision angle and dynamic vision pictures also made it a success. What is more, the combination of movement and stillness and its skillful expression also contributed a lot to the documentary. The rhythm can influence and control the story line of the whole movie, thus realize its value.The rhythm of a documentary is determined by many factors. This paper mainly analyzes the rhythm variation of The dress and the motorcycle:The former discusses the "dancing and flying"internal rhythm in terms of the connotation value. In other words, what determined the rhythm of the documentaries are:how did the movie chose the events, how did it display the characters, how did it show the characters’ detailed information and the development of their inner feelings, They are the use of audio-visual language, the control of the structure editing, and these all expressed editing thinking which has become a means of the external rhythm of a documentary.